Best Buy has really missed an opportunity to stick it to Amazon. They own a huge amount of retail space that could double as warehouse/online order fulfillment. You know you aren’t getting counterfeit merchandise. Returns are simpler thru walk in. You can inspect before purchase.
Instead, you walk into the retail space and they are out of everything. A warehouse should never be empty.
I decided to finally get an action camera a couple weeks ago. I watched however many hours of video between the GoPro and DJI Action, finally decide on the Action 4, Best Buy says they have it so I go to the store.
There’s fucking no one there. The entire camera area has basically bare shelves, they don’t even have the action 4 displayed or any indication that they sell it despite being one of basically two options, and there’s no one to get to go get me one. I ended up putting in an order on the app and wandering the mall for 20 minutes.
Fucking stupid.
Best Buy is going to be the next Circuit City. The only question is when.
The one near me (in Canada), just can’t seem to figure out what it wants to be and reinvents itself, and fails further, about every five years or so. They went through a phase with a massive music section, probably 25% or more of the store and tried to take on music store chains - that was always dead empty. Then that section went away for a while, and then they fully closed for a huge overhaul and re-opened with about 75% of the store now just an appliance store. The whole place is a ghost town and used to be quite busy when it was an electronics store like we normally associate them to be. I don’t even shop online anymore because they’ve expanded into the whole “marketplace” concept and are just another amazon where you need to closely check where you’re even buying from. I bet there’d be more success in doing what they’re good at instead of having to try and be like everyone else.
What exactly were they good at? Selling overpriced electronic crap?
Good at installing car stereos, before the usb port and CarPlay became a thing
Cheap stereos when they were Sound of Music.
Microcenter: get a free 128gb flash drive just for visiting one of our new locations
Best Buy:
This seems a lot more rational than some other closings where you hear about hundreds closing. Closing a few, but possibly replacing some of them with their smaller stores. Sound much more proactive than some closings we hear about.
Yeah, 10-15 out of 1,100 doesn’t really seem that drastic.
Is this the same store chain that has a CIA substation underneath in the Burbank location? Oh wait, I’m thinking of Buy More and their Nerd Herd.
Is this a fucking “Chuck” reference?
Holy shit
I miss that show. It was so perfectly cheesy and fun and silly, with a great array of characters. The finale was great.
